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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks agents with locating specific objects in unseen environments using natural language instructions and visual cues. Many existing VLN approaches typically follow an 'observe-and-reason' schema, that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yanjia Huang , Mingyang Wu , Renjie Li , Zhengzhong Tu

Capitalizing on the remarkable advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a burgeoning initiative to harness LLMs for instruction following robotic navigation. Such a trend underscores the potential of LLMs to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Zun Wang , Xin Eric Wang , Qi Wu

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is the task to enable an embodied agent to navigate to a remote location following the natural language instruction in real scenes. Most of the previous approaches utilize the entire features or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Xiangyang Li , Zihan Wang , Jiahao Yang , Yaowei Wang , Shuqiang Jiang

Recent work in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has presented two environmental paradigms with differing realism -- the standard VLN setting built on topological environments where navigation is abstracted away, and the VLN-CE setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Jacob Krantz , Stefan Lee

Robots navigating in human environments should use language to ask for assistance and be able to understand human responses. To study this challenge, we introduce Cooperative Vision-and-Dialog Navigation, a dataset of over 2k embodied,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jesse Thomason , Michael Murray , Maya Cakmak , Luke Zettlemoyer

Recent research in Vision Language Navigation (VLN) has overlooked the development of agents' inquisitive abilities, which allow them to ask clarifying questions when instructions are incomplete. This paper addresses how agents can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Savitha Sam Abraham , Sourav Garg , Feras Dayoub

Embodied navigation requires robots to understand and interact with the environment based on given tasks. Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is an embodied navigation task, where a robot navigates within a previously seen and unseen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Muraleekrishna Gopinathan , Jumana Abu-Khalaf , David Suter , Martin Masek

A robot that can carry out a natural-language instruction has been a dream since before the Jetsons cartoon series imagined a life of leisure mediated by a fleet of attentive robot helpers. It is a dream that remains stubbornly distant.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Peter Anderson , Qi Wu , Damien Teney , Jake Bruce , Mark Johnson , Niko Sünderhauf , Ian Reid , Stephen Gould , Anton van den Hengel

This paper advances motion agents empowered by large language models (LLMs) toward autonomous navigation in dynamic and cluttered environments, significantly surpassing first and recent seminal but limited studies on LLM's spatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yubo Zhao , Qi Wu , Yifan Wang , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Recent advances in Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation (IVLN) introduce a more meaningful and practical paradigm of VLN by maintaining the agent's memory across tours of scenes. Although the long-term memory aligns better with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Ganlong Zhao , Guanbin Li , Weikai Chen , Yizhou Yu

Syntax is usually studied in the realm of linguistics and refers to the arrangement of words in a sentence. Similarly, an image can be considered as a visual 'sentence', with the semantic parts of the image acting as 'words'. While visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury , Soumyadeep Chandra , Kaushik Roy

Synthesizing interactive 3D scenes from text is essential for gaming, virtual reality, and embodied AI. However, existing methods face several challenges. Learning-based approaches depend on small-scale indoor datasets, limiting the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Lu Ling , Chen-Hsuan Lin , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yifan Ding , Yu Zeng , Yichen Sheng , Yunhao Ge , Ming-Yu Liu , Aniket Bera , Zhaoshuo Li

Image-goal navigation steers an agent to a target location specified by an image in unseen environments. Existing methods primarily handle this task by learning an end-to-end navigation policy, which compares the similarities of target and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pengna Li , Kangyi Wu , Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Lin Zhao , Long Chen , Zhi-Xin Yang , Nanning Zheng

Following a navigation instruction such as 'Walk down the stairs and stop at the brown sofa' requires embodied AI agents to ground scene elements referenced via language (e.g. 'stairs') to visual content in the environment (pixels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Arjun Majumdar , Ayush Shrivastava , Stefan Lee , Peter Anderson , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Self-supervised vision-and-language pretraining (VLP) aims to learn transferable multi-modal representations from large-scale image-text data and to achieve strong performances on a broad scope of vision-language tasks after finetuning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yongfei Liu , Chenfei Wu , Shao-yen Tseng , Vasudev Lal , Xuming He , Nan Duan

In audio-visual navigation, an agent intelligently travels through a complex, unmapped 3D environment using both sights and sounds to find a sound source (e.g., a phone ringing in another room). Existing models learn to act at a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Changan Chen , Sagnik Majumder , Ziad Al-Halah , Ruohan Gao , Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan , Kristen Grauman

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) refers to the task of enabling autonomous robots to navigate unfamiliar environments by following natural language instructions. While recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Vebjørn Haug Kåsene , Pierre Lison

Visual Language Models (VLMs) achieve promising results in medical reasoning but struggle with hallucinations, vague descriptions, inconsistent logic and poor localization. To address this, we propose a agent framework named Medical Visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Guangfu Guo , Xiaoqian Lu , Yue Feng

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), an agent needs to navigate through the environment based on natural language instructions. Due to limited available data for agent training and finite diversity in navigation environments, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Jialu Li , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments remains an open challenge for robotics. This requires robots to perceive and reason over the current task scene through multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jin Wang , Kim Tien Ly , Jacques Cloete , Nikos Tsagarakis , Ioannis Havoutis